Thanks to a most generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries’ B. H. Breslauer Fund, the Library has recently been able to acquire… Read More »Pioneering Photographs: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’, photographically illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron (1875)
The next of our Visiting Scholar 2018 reports is from José Luís Neves, Lecturer in Photography at Ulster University. In this report José shares with… Read More »In the beginning was the chase
Back in March, we announced the names of this year’s University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars. We have enjoyed getting to know the first of… Read More »University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars Show and Tell Programme
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament… Read More »New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
This past Monday morning was a sad morning. It was the last Monday morning in a series of Monday mornings that I’ve been spending inside… Read More »New acquisition: Peter Fraser’s collection of Martin Parr photobooks
For this week’s Historical How-To post, we’re turning our eyes (and our lens!) to the 20th century for some inspirational portrait photography! We’re going to… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 14: Lighting a Portrait
If you’ve been keeping your eye on the catalogue, you might have noticed that the new Photographic Books Collection is starting to grow. Most of… Read More »New Acquisition: six new Photobooks added to the Photographic Books Collection
